Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The European Earthquakes.

Several slight trcmurs Of the earth, caus
ing little damage. have been felt in Italy
AMI other countries of Southern Europ,
since the great earthquake of last week
Wednesday. Comparing all accounts Of the
places affected the estimate loss of life is
between 600 and 700, the pecuniary loss !,
roughly placed at SlO, OOO. 900 and 2OOW
persons are homeless. In portions Of Italy the
people are living out doors. II j, feared
that the sewers IN the shaken districts arr
50 dsarrunged that the soil will become in
filtered and be- Il source of cOntnglon when
warm weather sets in. slight shock Of
earthquake the first since the beginning nl
the year was felt ut Charleston, =. c., last
Saturday morning.
An explosion in mine at st. Eticnnc,
France, on Tuesday, entumbed lUl men,
many of whom have been taken out dead.
Stories of distress, semi-starvatiun and
death, similar to those reported last year,
are received from the western and northern
districts Of Newfoundland. The cause is
mo fish, which means no food and cloth
ing for the fishermen and their families.
Measles are raging and many deaths have
occurred.
Justice Engelhardt. who performed the
marriage Of Nina Van Xandt to proxy f1i
August Spies the Anarchist returned the
alleged marriage certificate to the county
clerk Monday The clerk said he would not
file the paper until he had obtained legal at
vice ON the subject
burglars entered the bank ut La Grange
No. on SUNDAY night, blew open the safe
secured the valuahles amounting h. 81 ,OWO
most of which was in bonds notes. etc.
aud made good their escape.
ANNIE Barker. aged /; year., school
girl at Jacksonville, Ind, committed sui
cile uu SUNDAY night 10y poison because hei
parents refused to allow her to wed Adam
Bauer in consequence Of his youthfulness
\ bitter controversy between citizens OF
/ Coronado and leuti, Wichita county, Kan.
F over the location of the county seat re-
suited Sunday night in desperate fight al
the former place IN which two men wcr,
killed and four others fatally hurt.
The steamer ". II Gardner, one IF tn,
largest boats plying on the Tombigber river
from Mobile Ala, was burned Tuesday al
ternopu near Gainesville, Ala, and 10 whit,
and 10 colurcd persons lost their lives
\ steamer just arrived at san Francisc,
from China brings the news that Chimes,
junk loaded with passengers, bound iol
Siam, was recently wrecked, and out Of tn,
500 souls on board only six escaped.
The mail steamship Valparaiso, from Liv
erpool for Valparaiso, was wrecked Tues
day OFT Nigo, Spain The vessel had 81
board 200 passengers, all Of whom, Will
the mails, were saved.
Three members of Butler, y. y, fam
ily, who ate raw ham several weeks ago
have since died Of trirhinn.
l. l.. /. 81.
track in Pennsylvania last Saturday after
noon were struck bv locomotive and kill
ed They had been out hunting muskrau
and were ON their way home \ coal train
bearing down upon them, the boys steppe,
to the opposite track, when they wer'
struck 10y fast passenger train and al
were killed There we're seven in the par
ty. one escaping uninjurcd. A bhndn,
snowstorm prevailed at the time OF the a.
cdrut which prevented the boys from see
iu- the approaching train.